Criminal Law

Hall officials seek to improve indigent defense
From The Gainsville Times: Faced with a growing indigent defense bill where costs were once much lower, Hall County State Court officials want to improve how they provide lawyers for the poor in 2009...

GA: Indigent defense budgetary concerns do not obviate state's duty to pay conflict defenders
Lawyers appointed to represent an indigent accused as conflict defenders were not paid under the trial court's order. The state contended the county should pay. The State's funding problems and budgetary concerns do not obviate that the lawyers be paid...

On Indigent Defense and Constitutional Heroes
The bipartisan Constitution Project this week unveiled "Justice Denied," a major report on the right to counsel and the sorry state of indigent defense nationwide. But project president Virginia Sloan is determined not to let the 213-page report, full of...

Nevada high court explores indigent defense issue
From Nevada Appeal: There was more consensus than controversy among public defenders, prosecutors and county managers who met with the Nevada Supreme Court on proposed changes to programs to represent indigent criminal defendants...

Indigent legal defense system to get overhaul
From The Herald (SC): South Carolina’s patchwork system that provides attorneys to defendants who can’t afford them is undergoing a multimillion-dollar transformation — one that advocates say is long overdue...

Ohio Supreme Court indigent defense rules for capital cases
The Ohio Supreme Court earlier this week announced amendments to rules governing the appointment of counsel for indigent defendants in capital cases. In Ohio only lawyers qualified & registered by the Supreme Court can be appointed to defend an indigent person in death penalty cases...

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Ministry of Defense
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The Ministry of Defense
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